Alaska Gold Rush Diary

Zhou Xin comforted his cousin Chen Xiande for a while before leaving.

Back in his car, he picked up his phone and started searching for follow-up reports on the incident.

He learned that, according to the police investigation, the murderer had indeed been in Kurgadi before the incident, and several cameras had captured his presence.

Unfortunately, unlike in China, the camera coverage here is very low, so it's impossible to track his movements.

Moreover, he has not appeared in Kurgadi since the incident, and it seems that he has left.

The torrential rain completely washed away all traces of that night, leaving no clues at the scene that could identify the murderer.

Although the police are still investigating with all their might, there has been little progress.

Zhou Xin pondered this matter in his mind, trying to sort out his thoughts.

The murderer was a strange man who carried a large box of gold around, and the victim was suspected to be a member of the Gold Hunter Brotherhood.

Was Chen Xiande killed because he was a member of the Brotherhood of Gold Hunters?

Based on the records in the previous gold rush team's ruins notes, the Brotherhood of Gold Hunters was an organization that specialized in robbing gold.

Chen Xiande owns a mine and pans for gold, so he certainly didn't rob gold. So where did the gold in the murderer's suitcase come from?

Could it be that the murderer was also a member of the Gold Hunter Brotherhood, and that the gold in his suitcase was stolen, and that he killed Chen Xiande to keep the gold for himself?

While this is a possibility, it cannot be confirmed.

Judging from Chen Xiande's cousin's behavior, he should not know anything about the Gold Hunting Brotherhood, otherwise he would have already told the police during the investigation.

He held his phone, scrolling through photos of Chen Xiande's murder while thinking, trying to find some clues.

Suddenly, his gaze locked onto Chen Xiande's right hand.

Chen Xiande extended his right index finger and pointed to a certain spot.

At first, Zhou Xin thought he was pointing the finger at the murderer before he died, but now he has changed his mind.

Because his right hand was facing upwards.

When a person points at something, their palm is either facing inward or downward; they would never point with their palm facing upward, unless they are taunting their opponent like Shen Teng by saying "Come here."

Clearly, the dying Chen Xiande wasn't that bored.

The answer is obvious: he did it on purpose!

He wanted to convey some information before he died, to let people discover something.

What he wants to be discovered is located where he is pointing!

Once Zhou Xin understood this, he felt goosebumps rise all over his body.

Chen Xiande was clearly hiding something in the mine, something even his cousin didn't know about.

Knowing he was doomed, yet unwilling to lose what he had hidden, he made a gesture with his own body.

Perhaps he wanted his companions, who knew him well, to discover this, and perhaps those companions were members of the Gold Hunter Brotherhood.

Ordinary people would obviously not notice such details, and the police obviously didn't either, otherwise it would have been reported in the news.

The police were eager to reveal all the information they had discovered in order to show that they were working hard to solve the case.

What is it that he is hiding, yet wants to be discovered?

Zhou Xin quickly realized that if no one had discovered it yet, then the thing must still be there!

I have to go there!

Zhou Xin immediately sent Edward a message, asking him to wait for him in Kurgadi, and then drove towards Chen Xiande's mine.

He parked his car far from the mine, then took a pickaxe and walked towards the mine.

When he arrived at the mine, he found it surrounded by warning tape, but it was empty, and even the containers had been moved.

Apparently, the police abandoned their investigation after finding no useful information there.

Zhou Xin walked through the warning tape and entered the mine.

Excavators and dump trucks have been moved away, but the gold mining plant still stands in the center of the mine.

The once bustling mine now appears desolate and deserted.

Following the marks on the ground, Zhou Xin walked to the spot where the cabinet in Chen Xiande's office had been placed.

He mentally recalled the placement of the objects inside the group's box, then compared them with the photo of Chen Xiande's murder to confirm the direction his right hand was pointing.

To ensure accuracy, he even directly imitated Chen Xiande's corpse posture by lying face down on the ground.

Looking at the direction his finger was pointing, Zhou Xin knew that Chen Xiande's hidden secret lay in that direction!

He stood up, brushed the dirt off his clothes, and walked forward in the direction indicated.

He was certain that the thing wasn't hidden inside the container; otherwise, there would be no need for him to risk his last breath to guide it.

The police will definitely turn the container upside down, and they might even tow it away to dismantle it.

He must have buried the things in the ground, just like he hid his gold.

Zhou Xin walked forward very slowly, his eyes scanning the surroundings like radar, trying to find anything unusual.

If he didn't make any markings, it would be very difficult to find him.

Moreover, although his finger was pointing in one direction, it actually extended into a fan-shaped area.

In other words, the farther something is buried, the greater the potential deviation in its location will be.

But now that he knew Chen Xiande's intentions and had come here, Zhou Xin still wanted to give it a try.

Zhou Xin walked very slowly so as not to miss any possible details.

He walked for nearly a hundred meters without finding anything.

The ground all around looked exactly the same. Zhou Xin pulled up every shrub along the path to determine if they had been planted later.

Just as he had walked nearly two hundred meters and was about to give up, a sudden thought struck him, and he smelled a familiar fragrance.

The smell of gold!

When he visited the mine last time, Chen Xiande explained that this area had already been mined last year, so there couldn't possibly be much gold left here.

But now he smelled a strong scent of gold.

After following the scent for more than ten meters, he finally located the source of the smell.

There was a very ordinary-looking stone there, but the scent of gold was emanating from beneath it.

Zhou Xin's breathing became more rapid, and his heart rate increased.

He was certain that the stone was a mark deliberately made by Chen Xiande, and that beneath the stone lay what he desperately wanted someone to discover.

Zhou Xin's hands trembled slightly as he lifted the stone, rolled it aside, and then began digging with a pickaxe.

After digging about 20 or 30 centimeters, there was a sudden "clang," as if the pickaxe had struck a piece of metal.

The scent of gold grew stronger, and Zhou Xin's heart pounded even harder. He knew he had found what Chen Xiande had hidden.

After digging for a while longer, a stainless steel box appeared in front of him.